The Three Powerful Generals Surrounding Trump: What Does It Mean For His Presidency And The Country?

Jefferson Morley, , Salon: Politics
Sat, 08/19/2017 - 4:29am

(Credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Nature abhors a vacuum, and the military nature abhors a power vacuum, as the convulsions of the Trump administration in the first week in August show. While the president grows weaker in terms of public support, party loyalty and vulnerability to investigation, the military officers around him are growing stronger. In the early 1960s, a popular Washington thriller (and movie) called “Seven Days in May“ depicted an incipient coup by right-wing generals against a liberal president seeking peace with the Soviet Union.

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